Sir, permit me a space in your widely-read newspaper to comment on the killing of police officers in Ogun allegedly by armed robbers, as reported in the press on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012.
It has never been heard of for armed robbers to put a distress call through to the heavily armed officers of the Quick Response Squad or the Joint Police/Military Patrol Team in order to lay ambush for them and kill them.
I smell a rat here. The whole operation smacks of conspiracy when armed robbers are no longer interested in robbery but killing of security agents. Or when after killing law enforcement officers, they make a symbolic theft of a chicken, goat or a thousand naira to cover up their politically-motivated operation. Can we still call that armed robbery?
The timing of this tragic incident and other reports in the social media (on alleged breakdown of a new APC at Ijebu-Ode) since last week when it became public knowledge that Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State would be honoured in Ghana as the Best Security Conscious Governor in West-Africa, lend credence to the theory of politically-motivated armed robbery, orchestrated to fault the well-deserved award to Senator Amosun.
I therefore call on the Commissioner of Police, state Director of State Security Services and other relevant agencies to look beyond a mere robbery incident and establish if some politicians in Ogun still engage in keeping a “Killer Squad” to perpetrate heinous crimes in the state.
From my little experience, you may trail or monitor a person or group and their proxies for up to 3 or 5 years before making them to face the full wrath of the law. You just have to cast your net wide.
The police should also investigate their men to ensure they are not being used by the opposition, beside the need for professionalism in crime control.
Chief Ayodele Adesanya
Sagamu, Ogun State
